October 28th, 2007
This blog’s hosting company has been spending this weekend physically moving data centre, hence the terrifying amount of downtime - it’s all OK now, deep breaths, everything is back to normal.
For all of you who cared enough to email/message/contact me about the blog being unreachable (and all of you who tried but the email bounced [...]
September 13th, 2007
I’m doing more and more writing these days. It’s not exactly daily yet, but it’s getting much closer and the notion of - after a big bunch of months - writing an entire novel is increasingly realistic. So, I’ve created another main category on the right, to accommodate the inevitable posts about my experiences.
These main [...]
September 11th, 2007
I broke my blog yesterday - blank white screen for a few hours. It’s back now (hence your ability to read this), and I promise not to mess with things for a few hours at least.
As a consolation, Richard the anti-spammer spammer is back with more offers of spammer help:
Hello guys ! This is Richard [...]
June 4th, 2007
Adrian Pegg, in Egypt, working on a TV programme for LivingTV:
“I’m glad I stayed at the hotel today. I’ve got 15 people up a mountain on donkeys at the moment”
May 24th, 2007
Today I needed to send off an ebay item to the winning bidder, and due to it’s bulk, using Parcel Force.
First the good news: not only do you save a whole £1 off your shipment cost by using the the online shipment booking form (big points for having one) it also has this checkbox
Nice idea, [...]
May 21st, 2007
“…you can smell peace here, like the distinctive smell of fresh rain on hot roads or the smell of cut grass…”
Growing up with scenes of violence so regularly on our television screens, these are uplifting words.
Read Jason Jarrett’s view of today’s Northern Ireland. He’s there as I post this.
May 2nd, 2007
There are times when you would sell your gran for a big lens! Yes, It was a real live one.
Waiting for a train was uploaded by neil… via flickr.
May 1st, 2007
Mildly pointless but more fun than bum rushing pretty much anything - mainly because there are squirrels involved. Go do it now before you forget!